Speaker Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: ‘We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces’ To Protect Them From The DOJ
Speaker Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: ‘We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces’ To Protect Them From The DOJ
Yes. You read that right. Johnson is saying that he is intentionally hiding insurrectionists from prosecution in the release of tapes that Republicans claim will vindicate them on January 6th.
I'm not a lawyer, so I'm probably wrong, but wouldn't that be obstructing justice, or something?
It is the exact textbook definition of obstruction of justice. It doesn't get any more obstruction of justice than to literally hide identities with the express stated goal of obstructing the work of the Department of Justice.
He's taking a page out of Trump’s "it's not a crime if you brag about it on tv" playbook.
Worse, DOJ certainly had them before Congress so it makes no sense.
This is the dumbest part about this whole thing. It's just grandstanding.
Meanwhile, any little suspect from small time crime gets their face plastered all over local news anyways.
It’s theater for their deep state struggle fundraising. Gotta shake down the marks for the cash. You think he’s got a sugar daddy? He’s not a Supreme Court justice………
He said this at a press conference, was there no push back from any journalist, or was that edited out?
That's the murmur sound you hear at the very end of the clip as he's about to finish talking: a slew of reporters either pointing out that he just casually admitted to a serious criminal conspiracy or lauding him for protecting the conspirators, defending on the specific media outlets they're from.
Ladies and gentlemen:
The Party of Law and Order
Fuck this asshole. Post their faces on every billboard in Times Square. Dox them all. Anyone associated with Jan 6 should all be shot out of a cannon into the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, whichever is cheaper. Imagine what would have been going on in this country had they succeeded. That’s what the punishment should be based on.
You give them the glory of such a cool death? Give them a humiliating death, living with a felony criminal record and unable to vote.
Unable to vote and unable to buy guns. 😅
“Protect them from DOJ”
PaRtY oF LaW anD OrDEr, everyone!
It's interesting that they would choose to blur them if it's that sensitive considering blurring things isn't actually destructive and if you were to figure out the settings they used to blur then you can easily apply the opposite effect to unblur the image. To be truly destructive they should use black boxes over faces.
And regardless of the method they use it really shouldn't take long to do either.
Criminals? Yes. Criminal masterminds? Less so.
It's just an idiotic statement from him, considering the DOJ already had the raw footage since day 1.
...because they're the DOJ.
Yeah, but the Insurrection Hunters didn't have access to these videos & now, thanks to #christofascist Mike Johnson, they still won't.
Makes sense. What a ridiculous statement to have made to begin with though.
That depends on the algorythm and intensity of the blur. Blur is destructive. If you blur good it can't be undone. If you don't blur enough it can be undone to a certain degree, but not completely. I remember one criminal used a whirl instead of a blur and that thing had been undone almost completely.
That’s because these idiots struggle with email. They can’t conceive of what you just said
Can you please show an example of this unblurring happening in reality? In my understanding of video editing tools, once the file is exported with blurred details, there is not enough information present in the file to reconstruct the details of the unblurred source without access to the original unexported project files.
That's a fair point. I have never seen it done from a video before specifically, but I am positive that it is a technique which is theoretically possible given that there is enough data in the image. Obviously if the image was grainy to begin with then it doesn't matter what you do to it, you won't get anything better than the original. And regardless of how the file is exported, as long as you can take a screenshot of the video afterwards and there is enough definition in the image I don't see how this technique couldn't be applied.
Edit: and to be clear, I don't know what specific transformation(s) are traditionally used in video editing. For all I know it could be a long list of transformations that are all coded to happen with the click of a button to make it more difficult to unblur. But even that isn't entirely safe. There is just literally no reason to not use a black box/elipse or whatever in cases where the data is actually sensitive.
Somehow, I have a feeling this effort will actually help the DOJ identify who these people are.
There is a long history of governments not knowing how to properly redact information. There are STILL redacted documents where you can just copy the text out in a pdf reader coming out as recently as (intentionally vague: Within the last year).
I though it was all leftists, antifa, and FBI plants? Why would Johnson want to hide their faces? Unless the GOP has been lying about that. But they wouldn't do that, would they?
"We blurred their faces so you can't prove it's not!"
Fucking obstruction of justice for assholes committing treason....he should get the Santos treatment.. Straight to jail.
Why is Johnson protecting antifa?
Why can't antifa stop posing as right-wing nutjobs? There is a consistent habit of antifa posing as established right-wing nutjobs that have a flawless consistent history, as if they have been undercover for a literal lifetime. It is time that they stopped being right-wing nutjobs masquerading as antifa and be treated as who they are, lizard people posing as antifa posing as right-wing nutjobs with a venn diagram that overlaps with pedophiles, like a ring of fire eclipse's totality, persecuting people who live their lives differently than their narrow wold view allows.
Read your Bible sheeple, its all in there.
Where is this video coming from that the DOJ doesn't already have it?
Edit: from another article "We don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ,” the House speaker said. His office later noted that DOJ already has the raw footage.
Exactly as u/Kbin_space_program@kbin.social said below.
I imagine that the DOJ absolutely has it.
But telling the cult of Trump that "good ol' Mike" is blurring their faces to "protect them from the DOJ" is an effort to endear himself to the rabid cult mob that doesn't know any better.
That was my thought as well, especially coming from the party of drama queens.
Johnson will always put the interests of the Christian right before those of democracy.